In 2010, a shy high school freshman from New Jersey named Marie Hsiao picked up guitar, freshened up her piano skills and began releasing videos of herself singing covers of songs on YouTube under the moniker Mree. She got hundreds of thousands of views and attracted the attention of a Grammy-winning artist. "I would watch some other YouTube artists and was amazed that people were taking interest [in my music]," Hsiao says. "What I really love whenever I'd post videos, I'd stay up late to read comments and it's so crazy that these people know me and I don't know them all." For a young person hoping to break into the music industry, getting the...

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